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Inside the perimeter of the former East Wing
President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered journalists the closest look yet at construction of his planned White House ballroom, even as lawmakers raised new concerns about funding the controversial project. The ballroom construction site has been...
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Ebola outbreak alarms world health officials
The CDC announced Monday that an American tested positive for Ebola this weekend while working in Congo and is being transported to Germany for treatment along with six other Americans who are high-risk contacts. The Centers for Disease Control and...
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National Mall meets Sunday service
A crowd of thousands transformed a block of the National Mall into an evangelical-style worship service Sunday at an event backed by President Donald Trump and funded with millions of taxpayer dollars. In an eight-hour lineup, speakers including top...
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China summit achieves Xi’s goal: Equal footing
beijing — President Donald Trump embraced a name for this week’s summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, riffing on the Group of Seven meeting of the world’s largest economies. “It’s the two great countries. I call it the G-2. This is the...
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Xi warns Trump about ‘conflicts’ on Taiwan issue
beijing — Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that “conflicts” could emerge if the two powers mishandle Taiwan, declaring that Beijing’s top priority in talks with the United States is the fate of the contested island...
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Trump signals a zeal to cut deals at China summit
beijing — President Donald Trump came into office 16 months ago promising to take a hard line against Chinese trade policies that he said were stealing jobs and opportunities from Americans. But as he arrived Wednesday in Beijing on his first visit in...
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In pivot, Trump now more conciliatory with China
Since President Donald Trump last visited Beijing more than eight years ago, U.S.- China merchandise trade has fallen by more than one-third. The partial commercial deal he signed with Chinese leaders failed to live up to advance billing. And the...
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‘Our voice shouldn’t get diluted’
kissimmee, fla. — The Saturday night crowd at a Mother’s Day celebration in this lakefront city’s lively downtown, decorated with Puerto Rican flags and blasting bomba music, offered a microcosm of the booming congressional district in which it sits...
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A hazardous welcome
Passengers from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius are sprayed with disinfectant Sunday after disembarking at Tenerife airport in part of Spain’s Canary Islands. About two dozen Americans were on the ship.
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Spain readies for evacuations
Passengers on the hantavirushit cruise ship mv hondius scan the horizon wednesday. The vessel is set to arrive Sunday at the spanish island of tenerife, and passengers will be taken to a “completely isolated” area.
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Rubio in Rome seeks to mend fences with Pope Leo
rome — Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Thursday with Pope Leo XIV with relations between the Vatican and the White House at a low point over President Donald Trump’s repeated, direct criticism of the U.s.-born pontiff, who has emerged as a leading...
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Wide damage for U.S. assets
Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air...
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Losing battle to save N.C. beach homes
One afternoon in late October, as Lat Williams stood near the roiling ocean, he called his wife, Debby. “I think we’re going to lose the house,” he told her. “I think it’s going down within the hour.” For weeks, they had watched with dread as the...
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Idaho immigration fight reflects GOP schism
twin falls, idaho — The call came as Tom Zuiderveld was driving last month, just minutes from his home on five verdant acres of Southern Idaho’s agricultural heartland. It was his district manager, relaying that three of the dairies he sold synthetic...
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Trapped in a kill zone for 177 days, his wife’s voice was his lifeline
The Ukrainian soldier is lying on a cold cement floor. His beard is long, his hair matted. His fingers are broken. His teeth ache with rot. He is in the ruins of a factory in the northeastern city of Vovchansk. He is hungry and tired. His head throbs...
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Trump’s Iran war gets low marks
President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, according to a Washington POST-ABC News-ipsos poll, amid growing economic pain and...
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Front Royal gets a royal visit
King charles iii and queen camilla visit the 15,000person town of front royal, Virginia, on thursday — a t our sandwiched between laying wreaths at arlington national cemetery and visits to shenandoah national park — where the monarch gave a...
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Hegseth slams ‘defeatist’ lawmakers in fiery clash
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday sparred with House Democrats who repeatedly accused him of misleading the public about the Trump administration’s war in Iran and unjustly firing senior military leaders. The six-hour House Armed Service...
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Charles urges checks on power in U.S. state visit
King Charles III urged Americans and Britons to draw on their shared heritage to defend democratic values, including checks on executive power, as he exhorted U.S. lawmakers to address global problems collectively in an era of unusually sharp...
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Washington welcomes royal visitors
Days after a shooting that apparently targeted President Donald Trump’s administration and sparked fresh concerns about security in the nation’s capital, King Charles III embarked Monday on a rare state visit that promised to pit the president’s...
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Dinner lacked highest security level
The Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the White House correspondents’ dinner than it has for other gatherings of high-ranking officials, even though the president and many Cabinet members were in attendance, according to...
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A makeover on the Mall
President donald trump is having the lincoln memorial reflecting pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in “American flag blue,” covering a granite surface that he said was “leaking like a sieve” and would take years to replace.
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Lebanon looks to Trump for ‘leverage over Israel’
paris — Heading into a second round of rare direct talks with Israel, Lebanon is urging the Trump administration to pressure Israel to scale back its demands and end its military invasion of the country, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in an...
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Trump’s secret terms for ballroom donors revealed
The Trump administration’s contract governing hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations to build President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom shields donors’ identities, excludes the White House from conflict of interest protections and was...
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Trump extends truce in Iran
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would extend a ceasefire with Iran hours before it was due to expire, pledging to refrain from attacks until discussions with Tehran “are concluded, one way or the other.” Trump said Iran’s leadership...
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Pakistan emerges as unlikely peacemaker in war
islamabad, pakistan — The country hosting talks to end the Iran war was not a likely mediator. Pakistan does not formally recognize Israel, one of the key countries involved. It became a nuclear power in secret, as the U.S. and Israel have accused Iran...
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SNAP users face maze of new restrictions
Across the country, retailers and low-income Americans are facing complex new rules overhauling what millions of people can buy with food stamps. In Iowa, anti-hunger advocates recently sought to highlight how some cold sandwiches and granola bars may...
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Nuclear deal with Iran is at hand, Trump says
President Donald Trump declared Friday that Iran has agreed to virtually all his demands to end its nuclear program forever and said that talks to finalize the deal, “probably” held this weekend, “should go very quickly.” In a flurry of social media...
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In Africa, Chicago-born pope is increasingly vocal
Pope leo xiv arrives in bamenda, Cameroon, on thursday to celebrate mass. Days after insults from president donald Trump, the pontiff delivered a forceful appeal for peace and condemned what he described as “a handful of tyrants” who are...
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Measure to block further Iran strikes fails in Senate
The Senate rejected a resolution Wednesday to block President Donald Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran, even as some Republicans raised increasing concerns about Congress’s lack of input on the war. The vote was the latest test of lawmakers’...
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The price of defiance on DEI
Carlos Flores sat silent as speaker after speaker at the city council meeting told him he had the power to stand up to President Donald Trump. “Do not comply with a ransom demand,” the newly elected chair of the local Democratic Party begged the...
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President’s post appears to depict him as Jesus
President Donald Trump’s posting of an image that appeared to depict him as Jesus drew rare criticism from the religious right, prompting allegations of blasphemy and calls for him to take down the post before it was deleted. Shortly after posting a...
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Blockade of Iran announced after fruitless meeting
— After marathon overnight talks between the United States and Iran failed to yield a deal on U.S. terms, President Donald Trump on Sunday announced the imposition of a naval blockade on Iran — a move that could derail a tenuous twoweek ceasefire...
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Artemis II crew safely back on Earth
Nasa’s orion module splashes into the pacific ocean on friday evening, returning the mission’s four astronauts from their record-setting journey around the moon. During their 10 days in space, the crewt raveled farther from earth than any human...
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Iranians fly flags of victory after pause in attacks
LONDON — Shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to erase the “whole civilization” of Iran, all 6,000 years of it, the crowds came out into the streets of Tehran waving flags — and not white ones. They bore the green, white and red banners of...
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Israel kills scores in Beirut barrage
beirut — Israeli forces pounded Beirut on Wednesday, killing scores of people in an aerial barrage that Israel described as its largest in more than a month of war in Lebanon, just after the United States and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire. The...
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As president escalates, Iranian civilians fear they will pay price
President Donald Trump has said Iranians welcome expanded U.S. attacks even as he threatens to destroy key infrastructure and bomb their country “back to the stone ages” in a now-delayed effort to make Tehran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “All I can...
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A new frontier for human space travel
The moon is seen in the window of NASA’S Orion spacecraft on Monday. The Artemis II crew has flown more than 248,655 miles in space, farther than any humans, surpassing the mark set by the crew of Apollo 13 in 1970.
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Flyover is followed by a walkover
Four f16 fighter jets streak over nationals park before the nationals’ home opener friday. After cj abrams clubbed a three-run homer for the hosts in the first inning, Dodgers star shohei ohtani answered in the third with the first of five ...
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House GOP rejects Senate-passed DHS funding deal
House Republicans plan to offer an eight-week measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday, rejecting a separate deal the Republican-led Senate passed earlier in the day. The inter-chamber squabble...
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Trump adds 10 days to threat to attack energy sites in Iran
President Donald Trump said Thursday that progress has been made in negotiations with Tehran aimed at ending the Iran war. Talks “are going very well,” he wrote in a post to social media. In the same post, Trump said he would delay attacks on Iran’s...
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Cracks exposed in Israel’s vaunted air defenses
dimona, israel — When the air raid sirens blare and many residents of southern Israel seek shelter in basements, David Azran, 54, instead takes to his porch to watch Israel’s air defense system blast out a volley of interceptor missiles — dizzying...
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Senate Republicans pitch deal to end DHS impasse
Senate Republicans sent Democrats a new proposal Tuesday to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which has led to long lines at airport security in recent days and has forced many of the agency’s employees to go without pay...
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Border wall expansion raises alarms on all sides
The Trump administration is building hundreds of miles of border wall through iconic national parks, public lands and ecologically sensitive wilderness, empowered by provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill that provided $46.5 billion in funding and a...
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Eyeing war’s final stages
tel aviv — A surge of additional U.S. forces to the Middle East and President Donald Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure have set the stage for what U.S. and Israeli security officials increasingly see as the war’s possible...
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Ramadan around the world
On Friday in places such as, clockwise from top left, Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Gaza City and Indonesia, Muslims bid farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan with the celebration of the holiday Eid al-fitr. Typically a time of joy and excitement, this...
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U.S., Israeli objectives diverge as conflict deepens
When the United States and Israel initiated the war against Iran last month, their messages were perfectly in sync on the sweeping goal of regime change. President Donald Trump told Iranians to seize their “only chance” for generations to “take over...
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Tensions flare at Mullin’s hearing
Sen. Markwayne Mullin defended his record at a fiery Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday over his nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security, pledging to restore confidence in the embattled agency after a turbulent year that has led to...
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400 killed in airstrike on Afghan hospital
A man stands on debris Tuesday at the site of a hospital destroyed in what the Taliban said was a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul. Pakistan rejected Afghanistan’s accusation that it targeted the Omid Addiction Treatment center, insisting its strikes...
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Trump-xi summit delayed over issue of Hormuz
President Donald Trump has delayed a trip to China this month as he pressures Beijing and NATO allies to send warships to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz, throwing into question a long-planned effort to reset relations between the...
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In Cape Verde, joy and worry
são vicente, cape verde — Teenagers start arriving on the soccer fields in this island nation shortly after sunrise, as fog is still clearing, to sneak in drills before school. Early evening, they’re back on the pitch for scrimmages that stretch into...
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Flocking together
Snow geese take off last week from the 6,300acre middle creek property in kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, to resume their migration to the arctic. the birds have been arriving in growing numbers here since the late 1990s. For a few short weeks...
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EX-NFL players decry war video using their hits
The video clip is a favorite of Kenny Bell’s friends: The University of Nebraska receiver lays a punishing blind-side block on a Wisconsin defender during the 2012 Big Ten title game. But the clip found new life — and new meaning — last Friday when the...
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UAE, an oasis of stability, shaken by war
dubai — Black smoke rose above Dubai’s international airport Saturday morning after an Iranian drone struck near a terminal. That night, a boom reverberated across the Marina neighborhood as debris from another drone slammed into a high-rise tower. By...
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A son leaves. A mother still fights.
lometa, texas — The United States was not yet at war when Emm Matous barely agreed to host this going-away party for her son. Since serving in Iraq, even small crowds bothered her, which was why she lived on a middle-of-nowhere ranch with a chore list...
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Former Nixon aide revealed White House tapes
“I was hoping you fellows wouldn’t ask me about that,” said Alexander P. Butterfield, a former White House aide summoned before the staff of the Senate Watergate committee on July 13, 1973. His questioner had alighted on a matter that would electrify...
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Iran chooses its next supreme leader
Iran’s selection of Mojtaba Khamenei — a powerful regime insider deeply intertwined with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — to succeed his father as Supreme Leader cements hardline theocratic rule in the country and sends a strong message of...
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Paying homage to a civil rights giant
Hillary and bill clinton, Barack obama, and jill and joe biden are among those at a memorial service friday in chicago for the rev. jesse jackson, which felt at times like a church service and others like a political rally.
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Beijing sets five-year strategy
Delegates in traditional dress leave after the opening session of the national people’s Congress in beijing, the country’s top annual political gathering, where china lowered its economic growth target and raised defense spending by 7 percent.
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A rapid reforging of the Middle East
jerusalem — Early on a cool autumn morning in 2023, from a tunnel beneath the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar gave an order that sent thousands of Hamas fighters through the fence separating the territory from Israel. That green light has reordered the Middle...
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Embassies, airports close as violence worsens
The State Department is scrambling amid the fallout from President Donald Trump’s highstakes military assault on Iran and Tehran’s blistering response, with at least three embassies in the Middle East shuttered as of Tuesday as violence worsened and...
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U.S. could send ground troops
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday would not rule out the possibility of sending American ground troops to Iran or articulate the Trump administration’s exit strategy as the Pentagon attempts to secure a quick, decisive victory while limiting...
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Counterattack kills three U.S. troops
It took only hours of military strikes on Iran for the United States to find itself in a familiar but unsettling position: the swift removal of a global foe only to confront an aftermath that history suggests will prove difficult to navigate. The...
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Moms’ group joins hunt for Nancy Guthrie
Lidia Hernandez has been searching for her son, lost to drug violence in Mexico, for seven years. But she spent this week scouring rocky dirt for clues in the disappearance of a far more well-known crime victim — Nancy Guthrie. On Sunday, Hernandez...
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‘No chance’ U.S. will be in drawn-out Mideast war, Vance says
aboard air force two — Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that while military strikes against Iran remain under consideration by President Donald Trump, there is “no chance” that such strikes would result in the United States becoming involved in a...
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As war with Russia drags on, the children of Ukraine learn to fight back
From her wooden schoolroom seat, Katya, 15, carefully eyes the assault rifles laid across the desks up front. Her mind flashes to the Russian checkpoint four years ago. She is crammed in the back of a neighbor’s car clutching her aunt’s cat as fear...
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